UK Elections Info

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Born: 23 December 1621, Kent

Died: 18 December 1682

1st Baron Finch of Daventry - 10 January 1673

1st Earl of Nottingham - 12 May 1681

1st Baronet - 7 June 1660

Knighted - 6 June 1660

Member of Privy Council - 9 November 1673

son of Sir Heneage Finch

son of Frances Bell

husband of Elizabeth Harvey

Westminster School

Christ Church, Oxford

Inner Temple (1638 -)

Barrister

Solicitor General	June 1660	1660
Attorney General	1670	1673
Lord of the Admiralty	1673	1675
Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker	21 February 1673	14 March 1673
Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England	9 November 1673	1675
Lord Chancellor	9 November 1673	18 December 1682	(Died)

March 1660	Canterbury	Unopposed
4 April 1661	Beaumaris Borough	Unopposed
June 1661 Sir Heneage Finch, Bt elects to sit for Oxford University.